Papyrus 4 Education

1. Content

What’s the point ?
Why do we need a dedicated "flavour" ?
Is Papyrus ready ?
Workshop (meaning working!)
How to contribute ?

2. Before we start

Most of the screen captures in this talk are from Papyrus version 0.10.1.

I am not a CEA Tech List employee!
Nor a number…
…I am a free man!

3. Who am I ?

Professor at Université de Toulouse
Co-founder of the SysML-France association
Member of the SoSyM editorial board
Member of the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE MODELS
Co-animator of the Ambient Systems group at IRIT

4. Format of this workshop

1h30
Few introduction slides
Brainstorming session

Related to this morning workshops:

5. Why "Papyrus 4 Education" ?

"User" point of view
"Teacher" point of view
CEA Tech List point of view

5.1. "User" point of view

I’m addressing the industrial users here, not students.

Introduction of MDE techniques UML™/SysML™ is OK
Now it’s time for adoption and "massivation"

5.2. "Teacher" point of view

Do I need to mention I advocate open source tools?

Teaching UML™/SysML™ to beginners (more or less success):
- Rhapsody (for Continental Mexico, engineers)
- MagicDraw (for "Ecole Prépa", teachers)
- ArgoUML/StarUML/plantUML (for students)
Teaching UML™/SysML™ (more or less failure):
- TOPCASED
- Papyrus

5.3. Cea List point of view

Major milestone: Papyrus 1.0
Listen to clients
Polarsys initiative
Listen to labs & academics

6. Why do we need a dedicated "flavour" ?

Illustration from a class experience
Students (beginners) problems
User-friendliness

6.1. Illustration from a class experience

The class diagram they have in mind (the one on teacher’s materials)
The class diagram… in practical class (after finding a pen and a sheet of paper) $dc2.jpg$
The class diagram… they would have liked to write

class Produit {
        designation
        poids
}
class Fournisseur {
        raisonSociale
        adresse
}
Produit  -- Fournisseur

The class diagram… in the lab (after "playing" with menus and buttons)

6.2. Students (beginners) problems

Palette complexity
UML subtilities

6.2.1. Palette complexity

6.2.2. UML subtilities

e.g., participants should be a ConnectableElement

I cannot attach a class to a participant (v.0.10.1)

0.10.1/participants.png

6.3. (Eclipse) User-friendliness

(Most of) the Papyrus users criticisms in terms of user-friendliness come from eclipse!

2014
— J.-M. Bruel

I know, this is a risky claim at EclipseCon :-)

6.4. User-friendliness

We need to build on experiences
We need to build on other eclipse communities experiences
We need to build on other communities experiences

7. Is papyrus ready ?

Maturity
- Unconference this morning: Getting started
- Major release 1.0
Tuning/Customization possibilities
- Unconference earlier this afternoon : DSML within Papyrus
- Papyrus DTK (Domain Tool Kit)
- Following illustrations

7.1. Additional components

Papyrus additional components (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/additional-components.png

7.2. Viewpoints

Without

Papyrus without viewpoints (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/menu_normal.png

With

Papyrus with viewpoints (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/menu_filtered.png

7.3. CSS styles

Papyrus style definition (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/Papyrus_CSS_Export_style.png

7.4. Model explorer customization

Papyrus model explorer customization (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/model-explorer.png

7.5. Façades & Palettes

Papyrus palettes customization (v.1.0.0)

1.0.0/palettes-custom.png

7.6. Customization overview

Papyrus customization possibilities (v.1.0.0)

7.7. Papyrus is ready

Stability and maturity of Papyrus 1.0.0
Lots of customization mechanisms
Now time to disseminate
- Explain and illustrate
- Build customization strategies (e.g., for teaching)
- Aggregate efforts and ideas

8. Brainstorming session

2 mains concerns:

Content
- what are the core concepts
- how, in which order, do we teach/address them
Tool
- user-friendliness
- user level/progresses integration
- company method integration

9. Brainstorming session

Splitting in 2 main concerns?
- Beginners in indusrty
- Students learning UML™
Expected outputs

⇒ set of questions for critical feedbacks on Papyrus

⇒ set of questions for industrial beginners

⇒ set of questions for teachers

Be creative (remember welcome talk from Gaël)
Provoque collaboration

10. Collaborative work

Google drive folder for the workshop :

http://bit.do/papyrus4education

11. Critical feedbacks on Papyrus

May be try to "isolate" eclipse-related concerns
Really focus on Papyrus versus XX (MagicDraw,Rhapsody,…)
Identify potential targets for the form

12. Industrial beginners

Separate beginners
- from a UML™/SysML™ point of view
- from a tool/no tool point of view
Any good experience in tools that are "beginners aware"?
Identify potential targets for the form

13. Teachers

Examples:
- French O’level (STI2D option) ⇒ selection of SysML only
- French "Classes Prépas" ⇒ all diagrams, but not all concepts
What’s the good approach?
- "Shortening" the metamodel at first?
- "Hiding" concepts in the palettes/explorers?
Identifying the core taught concepts
Identify potential targets for the form

14. How to contribute ?

Stay tuned ⇒ https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/
Check the Papyrus forum
Contact project leader ⇒ Sebastien.Gerard@cea.fr
Contribute to the wiki ⇒ https://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT/Papyrus

15. Let’s build a community

In the eclipse spirit
- open source
- sharing experience and concerns
Beyond tool vendors race
- we need massive adoption now
- we need standard-based, solid tools…
- … but we need them "sexy" and user-friendly

16. About…

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